Until now, the order that our Hadoop-Patch build would test the
patches has been essentially random. Also, there has been no way to
see the list of pending patches.
Drum roll....
These 2 pain points are now fixed.
I have created a new Hudson job, Hadoop-Patch-Admin, that does 2 things:
a) triggers the Hadoop-Patch build when there are waiting patches;
the order that patches are now submitted for testing is FIFO :-)
b) exposes the current patch queue
To see the queue, go to http://lucene.zones.apache.org:8080/hudson/
job/Hadoop-Patch/ and click on the link "QUEUE OF PENDING
PATCHES" (you may want to bookmark the linked page since it won't
change).
The Hadoop-Patch-Admin build attempts to run every minute and updates
the queue information that you see. The build, however, will get
stuck behind any other builds (Hadoop, Lucene, etc) that are
currently running so the queue information may not always be
completely up-to-date.
Hope this helps!
Nige
PS updated wiki documentation to follow
